Christmas is the time when women go mad

Or how it feels impossible to stay on top of everything

I bumped into a mum outside school today. She’d sent me a WhatsApp late last night about a random candle that she’d put aside for me. She thought I’d requested it but had got me mixed up with another person.

‘I don’t know what’s happened to my brain,’ she gasped, ‘I can’t seem to think straight right now.’